Antique Landscapepainting, Les Gorges De La Dordogne, Didier Pouget, XXè. (qp477)

Antique Painting, Landscape painting, scenery painting which represents the "Les Gorges de la Dordogne" in Neuvic, France. 
Landscape art work, XIX Century. Place where many painters were inspired including Claude Monet.
Paintings with landscapes that represent nature. The ancient painting and the frame are restored.

The work is signed Didier Pouget, a French landscape painter,
who loved to paint outdoors and especially southern France.
William Didier Pouget (1864-1959) was born in Toulouse and
began his career as an artist in 1886 when he participated in the "Salon de Paris".

He studies at the "Des Beaux-Arts" school in Toulouse and then at the
"Académie de Paris", considered close to the Impressionist painters.
He becomes a member of the "Société Des Artistes Français",
knows and associates with many important artists including Jean Baptiste Corot.

His river landscapes are rich in poetry and the painter usually prefers to capture the light of sunset or sunrise,
I paint the figure of the tree in a dark and decisive color in contrast with the clear light of the sky.
In fact, on the back the painter writes what he paints, namely the light of 'Les Gorges de la Dordogne'.
Since 1903 Didier-Pouget exhibits in the United States where he is very much appreciated.

Many works by this important artist are exhibited in the many museums.
The oil painting dresses with a gilded frame coeval to the work.
This antique oil painting on canvas has an original golden frame realised in the 1800s.

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Bibliography: Bénézit et Gérald Schurr & Pierre Cabanne, Dictionnaire des Petits Maîtres de la peinture 1820-1920.
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Canvas size: 31.5 x 27.5 cm
Size with frame: 46 x 40 cm
Depth: 4 cm
Weight: 1.5 kg